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@Jessica Booker Hi Jessica!Most of the firms prefer a strong 2.1 . I achieved around 65% across most of the modules with mitigating circumstance. How does firms consider these conditions?
Unfortunately this is down to very individual circumstances (and rightly so), plus different firms will take different approaches too.

I wouldn’t say most firms require you to have a strong 2.1 though and ultimately you have strong grades anyway, so I wouldn’t worry about this.
 
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    Feel like a scratched record asking about whether anyone heard back from MWE, so I'll change it up today...

    Has anyone heard/know of anybody who's heard back from Curtis?
     
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